What're your favorite dim sum dishes?

[mussel]

Got the idea from GT's "boring" dim sum thread. What're you fav dim sum?

There're too many but just off top of my head:
loon har gau (lobster dumpling), steamed rice roll filled with shirmp or beef, tofu skin roll stuffed with shreded meat, bamboo shoot and black mushroom, baked tapioca pudding, lump crab meat and chive dumpling, steamed beef meatball, fried taro dumpling (the outer shell taste like a crispier, lighter and fluffier version of tempera coating), pearly rice with chicken, salted egg yoke, mushroom and Chinese sausage wrapped in lotus leaf.....

 

[DNW]

Few dishes I always get: snails, pork ribs, shrimp dumplings, tripes, chicken feet. Man, it's been such a long time. There are no dim sum restaurants where I am now.

 

[globetrotter]

number one favorite - steamed roast pork buns -char si boa.
also: soup dumplings (although I am not sure these really count as dim sum), pork dumplings (friend and steamed), taro rolls, egg custard buns, bees nest taro puff, roast pork, lotus seed bun, sweet bun, glutinous rice puff, sticky rice in leaf, black sesame roll, steamed pork rib, steamed sausage bun, mango pudding, barbequed pork pastry, fried spring roll, steamed pork dumpling,

 

[gdl203]

soup dumplings !

 

[jleeo225]

fried pork and chive dumplings

 

[VKK3450]

I like the traditional stuff (excuse my spelling)

Ha Cheung Fan
Har Kau
Salt and Pepper Squid
Char Siu Bau
Wor tip
etc
etc

Last time I was in Hong Kong, I had duck tounge. So many ducks had to give their lives for that one dish of suck tounge

Geowd I love the DIM SUM. Gimme sum o dat dim sum!!

K

 

[itsstillmatt]

The steamed sheets of rice noodle with shrimp or bbq pork
Steamed black bean spare ribs
Peking Duck
Suckling Pig

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Scallion pancakes.

While we're at it, I'll name my favorite dim sum place in my area: China Garden in Rosslyn.

 

[whoopee]

Chicken feet
Siu mai
Shrimp dumplings (har gow)
"The steamed sheets of rice noodle with shrimp" (cheong fun)
Pearl chicken (w/ rice in lotus leaf)
Turnip cake
Mango pudding
Preserved egg

These don't really count but I usually enjoy them at restaurants that also do dim sum
Suckling pig
Roasted goose

 

[farfisa23]

Originally Posted by iammatt

The steamed sheets of rice noodle with shrimp or bbq pork
Steamed black bean spare ribs
Peking Duck
Suckling Pig

Matt, what's a good place in The City to get these delish dishes? I work near Chinatown and all the places I see look dodgy, not really a way to guess good Chinese food, but experimenting is not what I want either.

 

[ComboOrgan]

Turnip cakes with egg and scallion
Leek pockets

 

[Piobaire]

I always get that little dish, you know the one with about three bites on it?

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Oh... sweet Jesus. This thread made me so hungry!

Pork Siu Mai
Char Siu Bao (steamed bbq pork buns)
stuffed crab claws (not many places here have this, maybe its a special occasion thing?)
Gyoza ( pot stickers)
Ha Gow (steamed shrimp dumplings)
spare ribs
egg custard


One important thing too, the tea. I have to have good tea!

 

[acidboy]

Ha Kaw (or Ha Gaw)
Siao Mai (or shou mai...)
Xiao Long Pao
Cubed pork blood
Peppered beef
Lotus rice
Beancurd skin roll
Fried prawn dumplings
Seafood rolls
Ox tripe
Spareribs with black beans
Radish and/or turnip cake
Pork buns with salted duck egg
Chicken feet
and lots lots more.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by farfisa23

Matt, what's a good place in The City to get these delish dishes? I work near Chinatown and all the places I see look dodgy, not really a way to guess good Chinese food, but experimenting is not what I want either.
For dim sum the two standards are Yank Sing at Rincon Center and Ton Kiang on Geary in the Richmond. In my mind, Golden Mountain and Lychee Gardens are the best in Chinatown if you want to go more native. I will eat at all four. Start with Yank Sing as the food is great and the atmosphere is easiest to take.